How to format your references using the Chemistry of Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemistry of Materials. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

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Blumenthal, D. Ecology. Interrelated Causes of Plant Invasion. Science 2005, 310 (5746), 243–244.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Summers, M. F.; Hrabowski, F. A., 3rd. Diversity. Preparing Minority Scientists and Engineers. Science 2006, 311 (5769), 1870–1871.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Normark, S.; Nilsson, C.; Normark, B. H. Microbiology. A Pathogen Attacks While Keeping up Defense. Science 2005, 307 (5713), 1211–1212.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Izumi, Y.; Xu, L.; di Tomaso, E.; Fukumura, D.; Jain, R. K. Tumour Biology: Herceptin Acts as an Anti-Angiogenic Cocktail. Nature 2002, 416 (6878), 279–280.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

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Kenett, R. S.; Zacks, S.; Amberti, D. Modern Industrial Statistics; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

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XVIII International Coal Preparation Congress: 28 June—01 July 2016 Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Litvinenko, V., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Bhaduri, P. P.; Hegde, P.; Satz, H.; Tribedy, P. An Introduction to the Spectral Analysis of the QGP. In The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures; Sarkar, S., Satz, H., Sinha, B., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Physics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp 179–197.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Chemistry of Materials.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Male Java Sparrows Drop The Beat. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-java-sparrows-drop-beat/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

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Government Accountability Office. Space Station: NASA’s Software Development Approach Increases Safety and Cost Risks; IMTEC-92-39; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

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Porter, J. Closing the Classroom Door: Denying the Political, Embracing the Moral. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

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Sisario, B. Future Hits No. 1 on Billboard Chart. New York Times. February 27, 2017, p C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemistry of Materials
Abbreviation	Chem. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0897-4756
ISSN (online)	1520-5002
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Materials Chemistry